It is time for the Summer 2013 FAFLRT Newsletter. Please send information for the Fabulous Feds column on new hires, new positions, promotions, retirements, awards, publications, special programs, etc. Anything you want to share. Photos are welcome also. You can also forward any other articles (as an attached word file) of interest to Federal Librarians and I will forward to the Editor of the Newsletter. Please include author/attribution.

Please send information by Friday, 28 June 2013 to my email:cynthia.shipley@usmc.mil and NOT to the list.

If you are in Second LIfe this evening, drop by Infotainment Island and check out the Federal Libraries Booth. The Government Information Division ,the Military Libraries Division, and ALA's Federal and Armed Forces Round Table (FAFLRT) are co-sponsoring a booth with information on how to become a federal librarian at the first Second LIfe Library Career Fair and Library Fair, sponsored by the Alliance Virtual Library on May 8 & 9th, 2009. The event takes place on Infotainment Islan.

The Library Career Fair, May 8th, is being managed by the LIS Student Union under Adra Letov and DaisyBlue Hefferman. The Career Fair events will include: Orientations for new avatars (librarians, students, and staff), an LIS Career Resource Center with links to global job postings, speakers on survival skills for getting a job in a bad economy, resume tune-up, and what employers are looking for in today’s media-rich Web 2.0 information environments. If you are interested in posting positions or working with the Career Fair in some way, please contact Diane Nahl, SL: Adra Letov, at nahl@hawaii.edu.

2-3 pm SLT: Opening Keynote Speaker: Kitty Pope, Executive-Director of AVL, on kicking off the month-long celebration of AVL’s Third Anniversary in Second Life. Additionally, other speakers will be addressing survival skills for getting a job in a bad economy.

3-4 pm SLT: Research mini-conference presentations by students on their Second Life interface studies.

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